Feminism Femininity In Chinese Literature

Author : Huihua Chen,Whitney Crothers Dilley
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 9042007273

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Feminism/femininity in Chinese Literature by Huihua Chen,Whitney Crothers Dilley Pdf

The present volume of Critical Studies is a collection of selected essays on the topic of feminism and femininity in Chinese literature. Although feminism has been a hot topic in Chinese literary circles in recent years, this remarkable collection represents one of the first of its kind to be published in English. The essays have been written by well-known scholars and feminists including Kang-I Sun Chang of Yale University, and Li Ziyun, a writer and feminist in Shanghai, China. The essays are inter- and multi-disciplinary, covering several historical periods in poetry and fiction (from the Ming-Qing periods to the twentieth century). In particular, the development of women s writing in the New Period (post-1976) is examined in depth. The articles thus offer the reader a composite and broad perspective of feminism and the treatment of the female in Chinese literature. As this remarkable new collection attests, the voices of women in China have begun calling out loudly, in ways that challenge prevalent views about the Chinese female persona."

Author : Tani E. Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822313898

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Gender Politics in Modern China by Tani E. Barlow Pdf

Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to which textual stategies construct notions of gender. Among the specific themes discussed are: how femininity is produced in texts by allocating women to domestic space; the extent to which textual production lies at the base of a changing, historically specific code of the feminine; the extent to which women in modern Chinese societies are products of literary canons; the ways in which the historical processes of gendering have operated in Chinese modernity vis à vis modernity in the West; the representation of feminists as avengers and as westernized women; and the meager recognition of feminism as a serious intellectual current and a large body of theory. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Chinese Literature (Spring & Fall 1988), this expanded book represents some of the most compelling new work in post-Mao feminist scholarship and will appeal to all those concerned with understanding a revitalized feminism in the Chinese context. Contributors. Carolyn Brown, Ching-kiu Stephen Chan, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Yu-shih Chen, Rey Chow, Randy Kaplan, Richard King, Wolfgang Kubin, Wendy Larson, Lydia Liu, Seung-Yeun Daisy Ng, Jon Solomon, Meng Yue, Wang Zheng

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969259

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Feminism and Global Chineseness: The Cultural Production of Controversial Women Authors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wendy Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804731294

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Women and Writing in Modern China by Wendy Larson Pdf

Using a theoretical approach that utilizes work in literary studies, anthropology, feminist theory, and cultural studies, this book investigates how, in twentieth century China, the modern concepts of the new woman and the new writing developed into a protracted cultural debate over what and how women should and could write.

Author : Kwok-kan Tam,Terry Siu-han Yip
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789629963996

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Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature by Kwok-kan Tam,Terry Siu-han Yip Pdf

Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors unravel the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Author : A. Dooling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403978271

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Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China by A. Dooling Pdf

This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of 'modern' women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the PRC. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices who intervened in the gender debates of their generation as well as contextualises the strategies used in imagining alternative stories of female experience and potential. It asks two questions: first, how did the advent of enlightened views of gender relations and sexuality influence literary practices of 'new women' in terms of narrative forms and strategies, readership, and publication venues? Second, how do these representations attest to the way these female intellectuals engaged and expanded social and political concerns from the personal to the national?

Author : Hui Wu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0739134213

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Once Iron Girls by Hui Wu Pdf

Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric, the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live and function. Reflecting on their experiences under Mao and in post-Maoist China, these essays vividly demonstrate that, despite equality of the sexes being the official position and women working equally demanding jobs as men, women are still considered servile to their male counterparts. Taken together, the collection shows Chinese women struggling for identity by discussing the issues that are important in their lives. Unlike Western feminists, they do not want to be seen as different from their male counterparts. Nor do they want to fall into Chinese terminology of being the same as men. Rather, these essays show that women want to be seen first and foremost as human and then as female. By showcasing the politics and poetics of Chinese women's essays to an English audience, Hui Wu's translations uncover the philosophy and purpose behind the literature of a unique generation of Chinese women, whose life experience finds no parallel in China and certainly not in the West.

Author : Tani Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0822332701

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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism by Tani Barlow Pdf

DIVBarlow documents the history of “woman” as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese writer./div

Author : P. Zhu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137514738

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Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture by P. Zhu Pdf

Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.

Author : Edwards
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004482715

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Men and Women in Qing China by Edwards Pdf

Men and Women in Qing China is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth century Chinese novel of manners, The Red Chamber Dream or The Story of the Stone. Drawing on feminist literary critical methods it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity, including themes such as bisexuality, motherhood, virginity and purity, and gender and power. Its central aim is to challenge the common assumption that the novel represents some form of early Chinese feminism by examining the text in conjunction with historical data. The book will be especially important to those interested in issues of gender in China, the history of Chinese literary criticism and the application of feminist theory to the Asian text.

Author : Lydia He Liu,Rebecca E. Karl,Dorothy Ko
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231162906

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The Birth of Chinese Feminism by Lydia He Liu,Rebecca E. Karl,Dorothy Ko Pdf

The book repositions He-Yin Zhen as central to the development of feminism in China, juxtaposing her writing with fresh translations of works by two of her better-known male interlocutors. The editors begin with a detailed portrait of He-Yin Zhen's life and an analysis of her thought in comparative terms. They then present annotated translations of six of her major essays, as well as two foundational tracts by her male contemporaries, Jin Tianhe (1873-1947) and Liang Qichao (1873-1929), to which He-Yin's work responds and with which it engages. Jin Tianhe, a poet and educator, and Liang Qichao, a philosopher and journalist, understood feminism as a paternalistic cause that "enlightened" male intellectuals like themselves should defend. Zhen counters with an alternative conception of feminism that draws upon anarchism and other radical trends in thought.

Author : Ping Zhu,Hui Faye Xiao
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815655268

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Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics by Ping Zhu,Hui Faye Xiao Pdf

The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female agency, creating a vibrant, women-oriented cultural milieu in China; third, in response to ethnocentric Western feminism, some Chinese feminist scholars and activists recuperated the legacies of socialist China’s state feminism and gender policies in a new millennium. These trends have brought Chinese women unprecedented choices, resources, opportunities, pitfalls, challenges, and even crises. In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural “feminisms” with “Chinese characteristics,” they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms, and, stress the difference between the plethora of contemporary Chinese feminisms and the singular state feminism. The twelve chapters in this interdisciplinary collection address the theme of feminisms with Chinese characteristics from different perspectives rendered from lived experiences, historical reflections, theoretical ruminations, and cultural and sociopolitical critiques, painting a panoramic picture of Chinese feminisms in the age of globalization.

Author : Jiaran Zheng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811007774

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New Feminism in China by Jiaran Zheng Pdf

This book is based on rich empirical data and findings concerning the lives, perceptions and ambitions of young middle-class female graduates, thus providing essential insights into the lives and viewpoints of a previously unresearched group in China from a feminist scholarly perspective. The study shows how the lives of young women and debates over youthful femininity lie at the very heart of modern Chinese history and society. With a central focus on women's issues, the book's ultimate goal is to enable Western readers to better understand the changing ideologies and the overall social domain of China under the leadership of President Xi. The empirical data presented includes interviews and group discussions, as well as illustrations, tables and images collected during a prolonged period of fieldwork. The insights shared here will facilitate cross-cultural communication with both Western feminist academics and readers who are sensitive to different cultures.

Author : Susan Brownell,Jeffrey Wasserstrom,Thomas Laqueur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520221161

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Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities by Susan Brownell,Jeffrey Wasserstrom,Thomas Laqueur Pdf

Chinese Literature: Lydia H. Liu

Author : Y. Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230119185

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The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism by Y. Chen Pdf

In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait. It problematizes recent scholarly understanding of feminist complexity in various Chinese-speaking areas. This book addresses sociocultural backgrounds of how Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong feminist scholars strategize their transfers, localization, and acculturation of Western feminist literary theories. It emphasizes how Chinese literary theorists filter, gate-keep, select, import latest Western feminist theories, and then match them with local socio-cultural trends by exerting comparative researchers' cross-cultural and cross-lingual academic power in order to tackle Mainland China's, Taiwan's, and Hong Kong's own gender problems.